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727 attractions

181Score 46.8 out of 100
Canyon
Black Canyon of the Colorado
The canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built, named for the black volcanic rock exposed along its walls.
182Score 46.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
The smallest designated wilderness in Arizona, 2,065 acres around Baboquivari Peak, a technical summit sacred to the Tohono O'odham.
183Score 46.7 out of 100
Botanical Garden
Desert Botanical Garden
A 140-acre garden in Papago Park, Phoenix, holding more than 50,000 desert plants in over 4,000 taxa, a third of them locally native.
184Score 46.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Grand Canyon Village Historic District
A census-designated place on the Grand Canyon's South Rim whose historic core is a National Historic Landmark District of tourist-era buildings.
185Score 46.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Iron Springs (Cochise County, Arizona)
A spring in the Whetstone Mountains where Wyatt Earp killed William "Curly Bill" Brocius in March 1882, later mapped as Mescal Springs.
186Score 46.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Murray Springs Clovis Site
A Clovis hunting camp near the San Pedro River, with five excavated kill and butchery sites dating to about 11,000 BP.
187Score 46.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Apache Pass
A 5,110-foot pass between the Dos Cabezas and Chiricahua Mountains east of Willcox, known in Spanish as Puerto del Dado.
188Score 46.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Big Lake
A trout reservoir in the White Mountains of Apache County, managed by the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests and frozen over each winter.
189Score 46.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mount Wrightson
A 9,456-foot peak in the Santa Rita Mountains within the Coronado National Forest, named for the miner William Wrightson.
190Score 46.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
South Mountain Park
A 16,000-acre municipal park in Phoenix, the largest in the United States, with 51 miles of trails and a road up to Dobbins Lookout.
191Score 46.5 out of 100
State Park
Lake Havasu State Park
A recreation area on the Colorado River reservoir at Lake Havasu City, with camping, boating and fishing.
468,535 visits in 2024.
192Score 46.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In
A Route 66 drive-in in Seligman, built in 1953 from railway scrap lumber by Juan Delgadillo and still run by his family.
193Score 46.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Orpheum Theatre
A 1,364-seat theatre in downtown Phoenix, built in 1929 in the Spanish Baroque style for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit.
194Score 46.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Wotans Throne
A 7,721-foot Grand Canyon summit near Cape Royal on the North Rim, rising 5,200 feet above the Colorado and named for the god Wotan.
195Score 46.3 out of 100
Canyon
Sabino Canyon
A canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, with waterfalls along Sabino Creek and trails through the desert.
196Score 46.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Watson Lake
A reservoir among the Granite Dells at Prescott, dammed in the early 1900s and bought by the city in 1997 as recreational land.
197Score 46.3 out of 100
Landmark
Wigwam Motel
One of three surviving Wigwam Villages motels, with tipi-shaped rooms on Route 66 in Holbrook, listed on the National Register in 2002.
198Score 46.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Bradshaw Mountains
A mountain range in central Arizona, formerly the Silver Mountain Range, renamed after the brothers Isaac and William D. Bradshaw.
199Score 46.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Empire Ranch
A working cattle ranch in south-eastern Pima County, listed in 1976, whose range once spanned more than 180 square miles.
200Score 45.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Hawley Lake
A 300-acre lake at 8,200 feet on the White Mountain Apache Reservation, extended as a reservoir and fished for trout under tribal licence.
201Score 45.9 out of 100
Landmark
Sloan Park
The Chicago Cubs' spring training park in Mesa, opened in 2014 and, at 15,000 seats, the largest in Major League Baseball.
202Score 45.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Bat Cave mine
A former bat guano mine in a natural cave in the western Grand Canyon, 800 feet above Lake Mead at river mile 266.
203Score 45.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Hualapai Mountains
A range east of Kingman rising to 8,417 feet, whose upper slopes carry Madrean sky island habitats above the Mojave Desert.
204Score 45.8 out of 100
Museum
Phoenix Art Museum
The largest visual art museum in the south-western United States, holding more than 18,000 works across 285,000 square feet in Phoenix.
205Score 45.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
South Mountains
A mountain range in south Phoenix, most of it managed by the city as South Mountain Park, with part in the Gila River Indian Community.
206Score 45.6 out of 100
Landmark
Arizona Snowbowl
An alpine ski resort on the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, running since 1938 and with a 2,300-foot vertical drop.
207Score 45.6 out of 100
Museum
Heard Museum
A not-for-profit museum in Phoenix devoted to American Indian art, presenting Native stories from a first-person perspective.
208Score 45.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
A 112,500-acre wilderness of broad plateaus, tall escarpments and deep canyons on the Colorado Plateau, designated in 1984.
209Score 45.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Guevavi Mission
A Jesuit mission near Tumacácori, Arizona, founded in 1691 by Eusebio Kino and Juan María de Salvatierra as a district headquarters.
210Score 45.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mormon Lake
A shallow intermittent lake in Pleasant Valley, Arizona's largest natural lake when full and a remnant marsh when it is not.
211Score 45.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Oak Flat
A mesa in the Tonto National Forest east of Phoenix, sacred to the San Carlos Apache and listed on the National Register.
212Score 45.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Woods Canyon Lake
A 55-acre reservoir on the Mogollon Rim east of Payson, the most developed of the Rim Lakes and stocked with trout.
213Score 45.4 out of 100
Zoo or Aquarium
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
A 98-acre zoo, aquarium, botanical garden and natural history museum west of Tucson, founded in 1952 to interpret the Sonoran Desert.
214Score 45.4 out of 100
Historic Site
McPhaul Suspension Bridge
A 1929 suspension bridge over the Gila River near Yuma, 1,184 feet long and replaced in 1968 when the river was rerouted.
215Score 45.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
Hundreds of pre-Columbian petroglyphs near Theba, listed in 1977 and run by the Bureau of Land Management with a campground and trail.
216Score 45.4 out of 100
Landmark
Walkup Skydome
An 11,230-seat indoor stadium at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, home to the NAU Lumberjacks.
217Score 45.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mingus Mountain
A mountain in the Prescott National Forest between Cottonwood and Prescott, giving views over the Verde Valley.
218Score 45.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Ocean To Ocean Bridge
A 1915 through truss bridge at Yuma, the first highway crossing of the lower Colorado and the only Pennsylvania truss in Arizona.
219Score 45.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Sierra Estrella
A mountain range south-west of Phoenix, largely within the Gila River Indian Reservation, with 14,400 acres held as wilderness.
220Score 45.2 out of 100
Historic Site
El Tiradito
A shrine in downtown Tucson, standing since at least 1891, to a man who died in sin and could not be buried on consecrated ground.
221Score 45.2 out of 100
Landmark
Navajo Bridges
Twin steel arch bridges over Marble Canyon near Lees Ferry, the first dedicated in 1929 and the second opened in 1995.
222Score 45.2 out of 100
Historic Site
San Rafael Ranch
A historic cattle ranch in the San Rafael Valley, a mile and a half north of Lochiel and close to the border with Sonora.
223Score 45.2 out of 100
Landmark
Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
A Phoenix amphitheatre opened in 1990 with a capacity above 20,000, since renamed the Ak-Chin Pavilion and Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre.
224Score 45.1 out of 100
Historic Site
Gilbert Arizona Temple
A temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Gilbert, announced in 2008 and dedicated in 2014.
225Score 45.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Salt River Valley
The valley on the Salt River that holds the Phoenix metropolitan area, better known since the 1930s as the Valley of the Sun.
226Score 45.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Bumble Bee
A ghost town in the Bradshaw Mountains of Yavapai County, named for Bumble Bee Creek and used by campers in winter.
227Score 45.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Hopi House
Mary Colter's first Grand Canyon building, opened in 1905 as a market for Hopi crafts and modelled on a Hopi pueblo.
228Score 45.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Miracle Mile Historic District
A Tucson historic district along North Stone Avenue, Drachman Street, Oracle Road and Miracle Mile, listed on the National Register in 2017.
229Score 45.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Rincon Mountains
A Madrean sky island range east of Tucson, rising to Mica Mountain at 8,664 feet and named for its cornered shape.
230Score 44.9 out of 100
Historic Site
Sce:dagĭ Mu:val Va’aki
A Hohokam platform mound in Mesa occupied between AD 1100 and 1400, one of only two left in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
231Score 44.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Cosanti
Paolo Soleri's gallery, studio and home at Paradise Valley, built from 1956 in earth-cast concrete and known for its wind-bells.
232Score 44.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Merrick Butte
A butte in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, south of the Mitten Buttes and named for the miner Jack Merrick.
233Score 44.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Gila Valley
The multi-sectioned valley of the Gila River, running west across Arizona from New Mexico to the Colorado River.
234Score 44.6 out of 100
Landmark
Chase Tower
A 40-storey tower on North Central Avenue in Phoenix, opened in 1972 and, at 483 feet, the tallest building in Arizona.
235Score 44.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Cochise
An unincorporated community in Cochise County, founded in the 1880s as a coal and water stop on the railway.
236Score 44.6 out of 100
Landmark
Phoenix Rising Soccer Stadium
The home of Phoenix Rising FC of the USL Championship, a soccer-specific stadium completed in April 2023.
237Score 44.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Rim Trail
A paved 13-mile trail along the Grand Canyon's South Rim, from the South Kaibab Trailhead west to Hermit's Rest.
238Score 44.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Twin Arrows
A ghost town on U.S. Route 66 in Coconino County, between the city of Flagstaff and the town of Winslow.
239Score 44.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Whetstone Mountains
A range in south-eastern Arizona named in 1859 for its novaculite, a fine-grained rock used to sharpen tools.
240Score 44.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
White Tank Mountains
A rugged range on the western edge of the Phoenix area, rising to Barry Goldwater Peak at 4,083 feet and named for its granite tanks.